8 Feb 2025

cimorene: Grayscale image of Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont in Rococo dress and powdered wig pushing away a would-be kidnapper with a horrified expression (do not want)
When you search for your issue and it's like: "There exist several promising avenues of treatment for this malady, most notable among which is the solemn practice of Mindfulness, while not to be forgotten is that most ancient India-appropriated religious practice of Yoga!"

(I'm paraphrasing, admittedly.)

Yes, pre-menopause CAN just make you sweat more and simultaneously make your sweat stinkier and also smell like the sweat of a completely different person and/or like urine because there can be so much ammonia in it. And also make your sense of smell more acute at the same time.

Isn't that lovely? And apart from hormone replacement therapy, your options are: wash more, antiperspirant more, or try not to sweat (see also: Mindfulness and Yoga). (I don't think yoga in general seems ideally suited to reduce sweating, but I can't say I'm surprised to see it in the recommended list. Does a woman need to calm down? Why not try yoga!)
cimorene: An art nouveau floral wallpaper in  greens and blues (wild)
I love William Morris's patterns so I'm happy that Morris wallpapers have increased in popularity in recent years and I'm spotting them everywhere. A local shop even carries them here in Pargas, a town of less than 20,000 people.

But on the other hand they are kind of a problem in historical 19th century production design, because it was a period when nearly everything was wallpapered (except for wooden panelling), and not all the wallpaper looked quite like Morris & Co, importantly because even then it was unusually pricey, and yet it is disastrously overrepresented in set design representing interiors of the period on film, even interiors representing this period in other countries, where the likelihood of Morris & Co wallpaper appearing at the time were probably quite low.

It's like if historical films set in the 1900s costumed 75% of the characters in recognizable iconic couture pieces. (In filmmakers' defense, filming on location increases the likelihood that the historic building you've chosen comes with Morris & Co preinstalled, and in that case there's not really anything they could have done.)

Wax and I put a great deal of research into renovating our house, which is a wooden house built in 1950. It had to be completely replumbed and rewired before we could move in and the walls of all the rooms had to consequently be resurfaced, and in the course of a million hours of research I bookmarked several domestic/regional stores specializing in renovation materials for historical houses: Rakennusapteekki, Domus Classica, Sekelskifte, and a bunch of wallpaper shops that carry paper wallpapers. And in all of these Morris wallpapers are front and center - usually they are one of only two or three brands carried by the shop, although in point of fact there are a large number of manufacturers that make a few paper wallpapers alongside their normal ("non woven" and vinyl) selections (Seinäruusu has a large selection). (William Morris's designs are my favorite wallpapers EVER, but they are minimum forty years too old for our house, and in completely the wrong style - our house is a minimalist, strongly functionalist-influenced, humble traditional cottage. So I would never have considered them anyway, but they are also at least twice as expensive as the most expensive wallpaper we bought.)

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